Interactive presentation: PowerQuest: trace driven data mining for power optimization

  • Authors:
  • Pietro Babighian;Gila Kamhi;Moshe Vardi

  • Affiliations:
  • Intel Corp., Leixlip, Ireland;Intel Corp., Haifa, Israel;Rice University, Houston, Texas

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We introduce a general framework, called PowerQuest, with the primary goal of extracting "interesting" dynamic invariants from a given simulation-trace database, and applying it to the power-reduction problem through detection of gating conditions. PowerQuest adopts machine-learning techniques for data mining. The advantages of PowerQuest in comparison with other state-of-the-art Dynamic Power Management (DPM) techniques are: 1) Quality of ODC conditions for gating 2) Minimization of extra logic added for gating. We demonstrate the validity of our approach in reducing power through experimental results using ITC99 benchmarks and real-life microprocessor test cases. We present up to 22.7 % power reduction in comparison with other DPM techniques.